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shall be found to be substantially equivalent to the statement of 

 analysis made by the manufacturers or importers. 



Sec. 13. For all the purposes of this act, fertilizers shall be 

 considered as distinct brands when differing either in guaranteed 

 composition, trade mark, name, or in any other characteristic 

 method of marking of whatever nature. 



Sec. 14. This act shall not affect parties manufacturing, 

 importing, or purchasing fertilizers for their own use and not 

 to sell in this state. 



Sec. 15. Sections 4346 to 4359 inclusive of the Vermont 

 Statutes and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are 

 hereby repealed. 



Sec. 16. This act shall take eft'ect from its passage. 



Approved December 11, 1902. 



NO. 81. 



AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF DAIRYMEN, RE- 

 EATING TO TESTING MIEK AND CREAM. 



It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State 

 of Vermont: 



Section i. All bottles, pipettes or other measuring glasses 

 used by any person, firm or corporation, or their agents or em- 

 ployees,, at any creamery, butter factory, cheese factory, or con- 

 densed milk factory or elsewhere in this State, in determining by 

 Babcock test, or by any other test, the value of milk or cream 

 received from different persons or parties at such creameries or 

 factories, shall, before such use, be tested for accuracy of meas- 

 urement and for accuracy of the per cent, scale marked thereon. 

 It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the dairy school of 

 the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College to 

 designate some competent person to test the accuracy of such 

 bottles, pipettes, or other measuring glasses. The person thus 

 designated shall so mark such bottles, pipettes, or other measur- 

 ing glasses as are found correct in marks or characters which 

 cannot be erased, which marks or characters shall stand as proof 

 that they have been so tested ; and no incorrect bottles, pipettes or 

 other glasses shall be thus marked. The superintendent of the 

 dairy school shall receive for such service the actual cost in- 

 curred and no more, the same to be paid by the persons or cor- 

 porations for whom it is done. 



Sec. 2. Each and every person,, who, either for himself or 

 in the employ of any other person, firm or corporation, manipu- 



